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...Beth Cahill, to replace Jordan. On Nov. 7, Kerry called Cahill and offered her the job without an interview. On Nov. 9, he sacked Jordan. It was as if a dam had burst. Within a week, Kerry began planning to abandon New Hampshire and transfer 100 staff members to Iowa. He demanded that the reluctant Michael Whouley, a genius organizer, take over the Iowa field operation. He decided to opt out of the federal campaign-finance system, which limits the amount that can be spent in each primary state, even though he had always been a supporter of public financing...
...President's puerile "Bring 'em on" challenge to the Iraqi insurgents--into Kerry's September announcement speech. Now the candidate decided to bring it back as part of a lacerating attack on the President, and it became the Kerry campaign's signature. He launched the new speech at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner on Nov. 15, which marked the rebirth of his campaign. "Suddenly, the decision-making process was incredibly crisp," says a staff member. "It was like dealing with a different...
...have to leave the Senate to make enough money to avoid foreclosure. Since then, Kerry's fund raising has been so successful that he was able to announce last week that he would use campaign money to repay the debt. But David Wade remembers driving along one night in Iowa, listening to one of Kerry's oldest financial supporters trying to persuade the candidate not to take out the loan. Even with the money, the supporter argued, Kerry's prospects in Iowa were dim. But without it, Kerry pushed back, there was no chance that he could overtake Dean...
...campaign strategy--something Kerry wanted as well. His Washington pollster Mark Mellman was the one who first spotted the opportunity for Kerry to revive his dying primary campaign by taking out a $6.4 million personal loan and making a counterintuitive pivot from New Hampshire to Iowa. But before Kerry signed off on the high-risk gambit, the candidate dispatched his old Boston hand Kiley to Iowa to confirm Mellman's numbers...
...Kerry celebrated victory on the night of the Iowa caucuses, he paid tribute to "the magical Michael Whouley"--a name now revered among Democratic insiders as one of the party's most gifted organizers but someone who got his start in Kerry's world as a streetwise kid from Dorchester, working precincts in Kerry's successful 1982 race for Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. And Kerry has turned to another old Boston hand, John Sasso, once chief of staff for former Governor Michael Dukakis. After effectively securing the Democratic nomination in March, Kerry installed Sasso as his eyes and ears...